The Real-Time
Middleware Experts
Bringing Real-Time Monitoring to the Grid
Supreet Oberoi Vice President, Engineering

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Smart Grid is more than just enabling Smart
Meters in your home
Making the Grid resilient and
efficient are the other key goals

NASPInet provides Situational Awareness
to the next-generation Grid (1/2)
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NASPInet provides Situational Awareness to the
next-generation Grid (2/2)
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NASPInet Architecture

NASPInet requires exchange of different
classes of data with different priorities
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Implementing NASPInet requires solving
complex distributed system challenges
• Scalability
• Low Latency
• Fault Tolerance
• Quality of Service
• Security
• Heterogeneity
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What & Why is Middleware?
• What?
– Middleware is a layer
between application and
network stack
– It presents a more
powerful API to the
application
• Why?
– Simpler conceptual
model
– Handle connections,
failures, translations
– Control communications
“Quality of Service”
(QoS)
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Application
Middleware
Network stack
Application
Middleware
Network stack
Application
Middleware
Network stack

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Applications
• Real-time middleware experts
– 300+ unique design wins
– $500B of mission-critical
designs
– 98% customer satisfaction
• Successful designs in:
– Defense
– Finance
– Unmanned vehicles
– Simulation
– Industrial automation
– Medical
– Transportation

What Does Middleware Do?
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Ship Self-Defense System
The Ship Self Defense
System is the “last line of
defense”
SSDS coordinates high-
speed radars, targets
defensive missiles, and
directs 1000+ rounds/sec
at incoming cruise
missiles
SSDS is in sea trial now
Middleware reliably delivers
messages in
microseconds

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DDG 1000 Ship Communication
DefenseDefense
Raytheon Total Shipboard
Computing Environment
Infrastructure (TSCEI) for US
Navy DDG 1000 destroyer
Coordinates and manages
complex, diverse onboard
hardware and software
systems
RTI connects 200+ computers,
8000 applications, 79k
readers/writers, 11m matches
Middleware extends scalability
in real time

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Predator Ground Control Station
Defense
General Atomics Aeronautical
Systems developed advanced
cockpit ground control stations
(GCSs) for unmanned aircraft
systems such as Predator®
Required real-time data distribution
for acquisition, analysis, and
response of remote controlled
aircraft
RTI selected for proven software &
services.
This application was delivered in
under 14 months, significantly
faster than with alternative
software or building their own.
Middleware speeds development

Next-Generation Intelligence
TCP-based
Broker-based
Peer-to-peer
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Intelligence applications push
performance/scalability limits
Data centric model eases
complex application design
and integration
RTI’s fully decentralized, peer-
to-peer, “no bottlenecks”
architecture brings
performance
RTI Router brings global
scalability
Middleware builds a globally-
scalable, high performance,
reliable infrastructure

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Traffic Monitoring in Tokyo
Transportation
Real-time information to
commuters and officials
Hundreds of traffic monitors
and information kiosks
along the highway
Variety of server & client
platforms, via links varying
in bandwidth & location
Middleware supports city-
wide deployment

Automotive Safety
The VW Driver Assistance
& Integrated Safety
system provides steering
assistance when
swerving to avoid
obstacles, detects when
the lane narrows or
passing wide loads, and
helps drivers to safely
negotiate bends.
RTI middleware
coordinates all the
sensors and automotive
systems. It bridges high
speed networking to the
CAN bus

NASA KSC Launch Control
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The Constellation program will replace
the Space Shuttle. It will be the next
generation of American manned
spacecraft.
RTI delivered 300k instances, at 400k
msgs/sec with 5x the required
throughput, at 1/5 the needed latency
NASA used an RTI Architecture Study
to leverage RTI’s extensive
experience to lower risk.

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Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River, WA
Largest single electricity producer in the
US:
6.8 Giga Watts output
3.5x more than Hoover Dam
Pilot program for 12 other US hydro
retrofits
Implementing extremely available system
No single points of failure
N-way redundant software
Data centric architecture allows
Easy bring up/ bring down
Fast reaction to change

Real-Time Integration Infrastructure
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Sensors Actuators Controllers
Gateway
Router
Operators
Logging
Historian
Publish-Subscribe Dataspace
WAN

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The DDS Standard
• OMG Data Distribution Service for
Real-Time Systems
• Vendor independent
– API for portability
– Wire protocol for interoperability
• Multiple vendors
• Transparent connectivity
– C, C++, Java, .NET (C#, C++/CLI)
– Windows, Linux, Unix, embedded,
real­time
• Data-centric architecture
Real-Time
Publish-Subscribe
Wire Protocol (RTPS)
Middleware
DDS API
Cross-vendor portability
Cross-vendor interoperability

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Growing Adoption
• DISA: DISR mandated
• Navy: Open Architecture,
FORCEnet
• Air Force, Navy and DISA:
NESI
• Army: FCS / SoSCOE
• Air traffic control Europe
…plus over 300 individual
projects

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“Global Data Space” Simplicity
Source
(Key)
Latitude Longitude Altitude
UAV1 37.4 -122.0 500.0
UAV2 40.7 -74.0 250.0
UAV3 50.2 -0.7 2000.0
Persistence
Service
Persistence
Service
Essentially a virtual, decentralized global database

Data-Centric Smart Bus
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Connection Oriented
• Multi-hop
• Hard-wired
• Brittle
• Hard to evolve
Smart Data Bus
Standardized Data Services
QoS Controlled Communication
Source: [modified] Raytheon Keynote Presentation September 2006 at DDS Information Day, Anaheim , CA
Data Oriented
• Peer-to-peer
• Loosely coupled
• Scalable
• Evolvable

Data
Reader
“Market”
Domain
Participant
Data
Writer
“Market”
Domain
Participant
DDS communications model
• Participants scope the global data space (domain)
• Topics define the data-objects (collections of subjects)
• Writers publish data on Topics
• Readers subscribe to data on Topics
• QoS Contracts control information flow
• Listeners notify the application of events
Listener
Offered
QoS Listener
Got new
data
Requested
QoS
New
subscriber
!

Quality of Service Control
QoS Policy QoS Policy
DURABILITY USER DATA
HISTORY (per subject) TOPIC DATA
READER DATA LIFECYCLE GROUP DATA
WRITER DATA LIFECYCLE PARTITION
LIFESPAN PRESENTATION
ENTITY FACTORY DESTINATION ORDER
RESOURCE LIMITS OWNERSHIP
RELIABILITY OWNERSHIP STRENGTH
TIME BASED FILTER LIVELINESS
DEADLINE LATENCY BUDGET
CONTENT FILTERS TRANSPORT PRIORITY

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RTI Leadership
• Market Leader
– Over 70% DDS market share1
– Largest embedded middleware vendor
of all types2
• Standards Leader
– OMG Board of Directors
– Co-chair DDS SIG
– Chair DDS committee
• Maturity Leader
– 12+ years of commercial availability
– Diverse industries: defense, finance, medical, industrial
control, power generation, communications
– 300+ commercial customers, 100+ research projects
– 100,000+ licensed copies
– U.S. DoD Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 8/9
1Embedded Market Forecasters
2VDC Analyst Report

QUESTIONS?
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